Teen series author coming to Seneca to promote new book

Heather Brewer, author of the 12-and-up vampire series "Chronicles of Vladimir Tod," will be at the Booksmith in Seneca at 7 p.m. Sept. 23. She will be promoting the final book in her series, "Twelfth Grade Kills," which will be released Sept. 21.

There are more than a million copies of the Vladimir Tod books in print. According to Allison Verost, Ms. Brewer's publicist at Penguin Young Readers Group, the books are aimed at pre-teens and teens who feel like outsiders and who may be bullied by popular classmates. The author draws on her own experiences to write about "the daily perils of high school for an outsider," Ms. Verost says, concluding, "High school bites, but it doesn't last forever." Thank goodness!